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Floods from Typhoon Yagi have so far claimed the lives of 226 people in Myanmar. The damage is also severely impeding urgent aid efforts.
The death toll from flooding in Myanmar triggered by Typhoon Yagi has spiked to 226 in just over a week, state media reported on Tuesday.
About 77 people are still missing, state media in the junta-ruled Myanmar said.
Areas including the capital, Naypyitaw, the second largest city of Mandalay and parts of Shan state were among those hit hardest by the floods.
Conditions obstructed much-needed aid deliveries
The flooding has affected approximately 631,000 people across the southeast Asian country, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) disaster response agency said.
The agency added that blocked roads and damaged bridges were all severely hindering relief efforts even as food, drinking water, shelter and clothes were urgently needed.
Over 150,000 homes were flooded, Global New Light of Myanmar, the newspaper of the military government, reported.
“A total of 388 relief camps were opened in nine regions and states, and the well-wishers donated drinking water, food and clothes,” the state newspaper said.
Myanmar’s state TV said nearly 260,000 hectares (640,000 acres) of rice paddies and other crops had been destroyed in the flooding…
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